Great fighting game from Sochi
8 April 2008 23:01 PM | Last modified: 8:35
Today we focus on one specific game from the Russian Team Championship (Volokitin-Movsesian), where the Ural team from Ekaterinenburg is leading with ten points out of six matches.
Results so far:
Round 1: 2 April 2008 Round 2: 3 April 2008 SHSM - 64 3-3 SHSM - TPS 4-2 TPN-Saransk - South Ural 4-2 South Ural - FINEK 2½-3½ FINEK - Shatar 2½-3½ Shatar - Spacio 3-3 Spacio - Ural 2-4 Ural - Economist-2 4½-1½ Economist-2 - Economist-1 2-4 Economist-1 - Tomsk-400 4-2 Tomsk-400 - Polytechnic 2½-3½ 64 - Polytechnic 3-3 Round 3: 4 April 2008 Round 4: 5 April 2008 FINEK - SHSM 3½-2½ Ural - Polytechnic 4-2 ТПС - 64 3-3 64 - Economist-1 3½-2½ Spacio - South Ural 3½-2½ TPN - FINEK 3-3 Economist-2 - Shatar 3-3 Shatar - Tomsk-400 3½-2½ Tomsk-400 - Ural 2-4 SHSM - Spacio 3-3 Polytechnic - Economist-1 2½-3½ South Ural - Economist-2 2½-3½ Round 5: 6 April 2008 Round 6: 7 April 2008 Economist-1 - Ural 2½-3½ 64 - Ural 3½-2½ Polytechnic - Shatar 2½-3½ Shatar - Economist-1 2½-3½ FINEK - 64 4½-1½ FINEK - Spacio 3-3 Spacio - TPS 2½-3½ SHSM - Tomsk-400 2½-3½ Economist-2 - SHSM 2-4 TPN - Economist-2 4-2 Tomsk-400 - South Ural 4-2 South Ural - Polytechnic 4-2
Who were those players again? Here’s the line-up of all teams one more time:
Russian Team Ch Round 6 Standings
| 1 | Ural | Yekaterinburg | 10 | 22.5 |
| 2-5 | Finek Gazprom | Sankt Petersburg | 8 | 20.0 |
| 2-5 | Economist 1 | Saratov | 8 | 20.0 |
| 2-5 | TPS Saransk | Saransk | 8 | 19.5 |
| 2-5 | Shatar Buryatia | 8 | 19.0 | |
| 6 | 64 | Moscow | 7 | 17.5 |
| 7 | SHSM | Moscow | 6 | 19.0 |
| 8 | Spasio-Swiss | Moscow | 5 | 17.0 |
| 9 | Tomsk-400 | Tomsk | 4 | 16.5 |
| 10-11 | Politekhnik | Nizhny Tagil | 3 | 15.5 |
| 10-11 | Economist 2 | Saratov | 3 | 14.0 |
| 12 | South Ural | Chelyabinsk | 2 | 15.5 |
Thus far, the Chinese players Wang Hao and Ni Hua and Corus B winner Sergei Movsesian are doing well. All three have a score of 4.5 out of 6. Percentually speaking, Vladimir Malakhov (4 / 5), Alexander Motylev (3,5 / 4) and Alexander Morozevich (3 / 3) are doing even better.
Not in great form are Alexei Kornev (0 / 3), Evgeny Bareev (0,5 / 3) and especially Ian Nepomniachtchi (0,5 / 5 4), but also Pavel Tregubov (1 / 5) and Zahar Efimenko (1 / 5). Anatoli Karpov has 0,5 / 3 and his team mate Viktor Korchnoi 1,5 / 5.
Here’s a very attractive game from the fourth round:
Links:
>Ian Nepomniachtchi (0,5 / 5)
It’s .5/4, he didn’t play rounds 3 and 6.
Tijdens de partij snapte ik niet waarom geen 61. .. Dxb3 werd gespeeld. En nu nog steeds niet…
Klopt MichielB, prima zet. Het aparte is alleen dat daar …a4 drie zetten eerder tot mat leidt.
Thank you for annotating that game!
At move 80 the tablebases show that their are no fewer than 17 winning moves the two best of which are Qb7 and Qd6, unfortunately Qa3 isn’t one of them.